Five-year-old girl from the Kolar district in Karnataka has tested positive for the ZIKA virus. WHO has declared Zika-related microcephaly ...

"Zika virus is something which is something like a priority virus for which both preventive measures have to be taken. There are efforts no...

To prevent further outbreaks, the authorities have mandated an entomological scan of Pune city for the Zika virus. In the city, more invest...

Responding to a question on whether the country has the infrastructure and expertise for testing and treating persons infected with the Zik...

Samples were collected from various pockets in the neighbouring areas of IAF station hangars and sent to the lab at King George's Medical U...

An IAF personnel from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh tested positive for Zika virus on October 23, following which the Union Health Ministry had s...

ICMR will undertake phase-II trial of the vaccine to establish the efficacy and safety of the vaccine along with its adverse effects.

According to the World Health Organization's classification scheme on the prevalence of Zika virus, India is in category 2, indicating ongo...

Singh admitted that even though the virus spreads through Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which is endemic to Ahmedabad, there was no cascading num...

WHO said two additional cases were then identified through the Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) and the Antenatal clinic (ANC) surveillance.

The elderly victim, had an underlying health condition, died in late June after traveling to a country where the Zika virus is active.

After a woman tested positive for Zika officials went to see if she could have been bitten by a transmitter mosquito at her home.

Zika virus has infected at least 116 people, including an infant, in the US, according to a leading American public health institute.

To deal with Zika, Swaminathan said, testing of people is being done in the country at present, besides looking at the issue of developing ...

Indian scientists had even stored a vial of the pathogen, ICMR Director-General Soumya Swaminathan said.

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Andhra Pradesh Government decided to set up help desks in the airports and sea ports in the state as part of efforts to deal with Zika viru...